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I haven't bought a pop album in my life - nor d/l'ed a commercial pop mp3. But why would the whole stuff be limited to chart pop shit? The labels could also offer nice things from their entire repertoire... which they don't do.
In fact, in a recent magazine article they said that even top-selling stuff like for example the current Shakira / Anastacia / Britney Smears / whatever album is unavailable in most cases. And I doubt they will ever have stuff from the 70's or 80's, unless it's VERY famous and well-known.
And yes, your music really becomes more expensive. In this article, the commercial MP3 download system was shown to reach shop prices in the best cases. In most cases, however, it was indeed more expensive. The most extreme case they had in their test was a double CD (some lame "best of" which the f***ing music industry sold for whopping 30 euros already) - a legal download would have amounted to 77+ euros!!!! Without booklet and case, of course. Yeah, right. They can just go soak their heads if that's the best they can do. Pathetic.